People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life, all you have to be faithful to is the spirit of the facts, which I think I was in every case. As long as you don't violate their spirit, you can play with the facts.
Milos FormanYou know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Milos FormanThe Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.
Milos FormanYou really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinรฉma vรฉritรฉ taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.
Milos Forman